I was born in the UK, a child of the 60’s with an English mother and an Australian father, who would go on to be one of nine children. Unfortunately at age 16 my father died and with it my main source of inspiration. He was survived by eight of his children and mum, a housewife who was left with the unholy burden of delivering us all into adulthood. Fortunately, the first thing she did was to ensure we all received dual citizenship.

I’d never heard of ADHD at this time, but just two months later when sitting my high school exams, I discovered its destructive quality effecting my ability to focus in large exam environments where the slightest sound got amplified to destructive levels. So I set about life on the back foot, ever determined to get in front. This instilled in me a determination to prove to the world and myself that I was more than intelligent enough to turn my fortunes around; so with both feet firmly in the self taught camp I progressed feeling sure that my time would come.

Not wanting to be left behind, I took every opportunity that came my way and at aged 21, I did a parachute jump and travelled to the south of France to do grape picking; aged 22, I was selected over 10,000 others in a national broadsheet newspaper advertisement to the post of Stage Scenery Artist and Sign-writer on holiday camps also in the south of France. Aged 25, I moved to Brighton UK where I would play in bands; busk as part of a three piece outfit on the street and enjoy a plethora of self taught occupations to earn a crust.

My greatest passion had always been music; and as one of the self taught variety I played and was involved in two albums; and as part of the busking trio, achieved the extraordinary, when becoming the ‘highest played’ buskers in Europe. Why I tell you all this is to give you an understanding of ‘who’ I am, ‘what’ makes me tick, ‘where’ I went on to achieve; ‘why’ I had to go it alone and ‘when the journeyman began’.

In 2004 I began a relationship that brought me two children and a desperate desire to cope. in 2017 I was diagnosed with ADHD; and as I read more and more about it, I was able to recognise where that desperation had come from through the uniqueness of my behavioural traits in regards to others. It was like a window opening for the first time freeing up my thoughts, that enabled me to look back at myself, no longer feeling trapped and at a loss as to why people thought my methodology as excessive. Unfortunately things weren’t going to change over night; and in the six years that followed, sadly, realisation couldn’t change who my partner and I had become and in 2023 a two way relationship ended in a caring separation. It wasn’t of my making though in part, it very much was.

So today I find myself alone on a road trip, putting me at the top of the agenda; chasing opportunity as a freer man; whilst, a being, long in the tooth lost, searching for the next signpost indicating which way is up and which way is home.

So I departed on June 16th 2025, in search of those signposts; packed and determined to move on; most importantly though, taking with me the concerns of a family 20 years in the making; so still a relationship of sorts, just not the one I saw coming.